cover image Way Men ACT

Way Men ACT

Elinor Lipman, Elinor Upman. Washington Square Press, $14 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-671-74841-8

In an enchanting second novel--a BOMC selection in cloth--Lipman traces the untriumphant return of 30-year-old Melinda LeBlanc to her recently gentrified Massachusetts hometown after a decade of unfocused living in California. (Feb.)